AKOOL
AKOOL is a generative AI video suite built for personalized visual marketing and advertising. Teams create talking avatars and talking photos, swap faces in photos and videos, translate and dub content into 155+ languages, generate images and videos from prompts with Seedance, Kling, Wan, and Nano Banana models, and embed real-time streaming avatars through its API.
What is AKOOL?
AKOOL is a generative AI video suite for personalized visual marketing and advertising, organised around avatars, face swap, video translation, and image and video generation. It runs entirely in the browser and gathers roughly thirty creation tools into one workspace, so marketing teams can produce spokesperson videos, e-commerce product ads, animated photos, and localized campaigns without a camera, a studio, or an editing crew.
The avatar line is the core of the product. Character Studio creates videos from an avatar plus a script, Talking Photo animates any still image into a speaking clip, Avatar Video turns slide decks or PDFs into presenter-led explainers, and Streaming Avatar together with Live Camera pushes an interactive avatar into live conversations, kiosks, and customer support flows through voice, text, or camera input. Real-time face swap and a dedicated AI Support Agent round out the interactive side.
Visual effects cover the swap family: Face Swap in photos and videos, Character Swap, Motion Swap, Head Swap, Hair Swap, and Clothing Swap, each consuming credits per generation. Video translation handles 155+ languages with lip-sync, background music removal, AI voice selection, captions and subtitles, a proofread editor, and voice dictionaries for brand terminology, and uploads are accepted up to 4K or 8K depending on plan.
Generation is powered by a model hub that aggregates third-party and in-house models. On the video side that means Seedance 2.5 and Seedance 2.0, Wan 3.0 and Wan 2.x, Kling 3.0, MiniMax Hailuo, PixVerse, Google Veo, Sora, Vidu Q3, and Grok Imagine; on the image side Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro, Flux 2, Seedream 5.0, GPT Image 2.0, Recraft, Qwen Image, and Akool Image. Agentic Canvas and the Video Agent orchestrate multi-step creative work, and the real-time world model explores interactive scenes.
Voice tooling includes Text to Speech, Voice Changer, and Voice Clone, with voice limits running from five voices on Starter to 500 on Business. E-commerce Product Ads, PPT/PDF to Video, and Akool Production cover direct-response marketing, while the Akool OpenAPI, MCP CLI, and API let developers embed streaming avatars, translation, talking photos, and face swap at scale. Akool reports more than 300M assets generated, 10M+ users, and Fortune 500 customers, and its plans add higher concurrency, workspace collaboration, and studio avatars as you move up the tiers.
AKOOL Core Features
AI Avatars and Talking Photos
Turn a portrait into a speaking video, build camera-free avatar videos from a script, and animate still images with lip-synced dialogue.
Face Swap Family
Face, character, motion, head, hair, and clothing swap tools for photos and videos, with uploads up to 16K and live face swap sessions up to 120 minutes.
Video Translation and Dubbing
Translate and dub into 155+ languages with lip-sync, BGM removal, captions, SRT and ASS export, a proofread editor, and voice dictionaries.
Multi-Model Video and Image Generation
Generate with Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0, Kling 3.0, MiniMax, PixVerse, Veo, Sora, Nano Banana Pro, Flux, Seedream, and Akool's own models from one hub.
Streaming and Real-Time Avatars
Deploy interactive avatars on the web with voice, text, or camera input, plus Live Camera, real-time translation, and an AI support agent.
Voice Lab and Cloning
Text to speech in 155+ languages, a voice changer, and voice cloning that scales from 5 voices on Starter to 500 voices on the Business plan.
Agentic Canvas and Video Agent
A prompt-driven workspace for multi-step image and video production, alongside e-commerce product ads and PPT/PDF-to-video templates.
API, OpenAPI and MCP CLI
Embed streaming avatars, translation, talking photos, and face swap at scale, with API access included from the Pro Max plan upward.
Who is AKOOL for?
AKOOL is aimed at marketers, creative agencies, and product teams that need video output at a pace a traditional studio cannot match. Performance marketers use it for personalized video ads, animated product shots, and e-commerce creatives, since Face Swap, Character Swap, and E-commerce Product Ads let them swap talent, outfits, or models without reshooting a campaign. Social media managers and solo creators lean on talking photos, avatar videos, and template effects to publish short-form content every day. Localization teams are a natural fit: video translation covers 155+ languages with lip-sync, subtitle files, voice cloning, and a proofread editor, which makes it practical to turn one master video into dozens of market-specific versions while keeping brand terminology consistent through voice dictionaries. Media companies, trainers, and edtech publishers use the same pipeline for explainer videos, course content, and slide-deck-to-video lessons. Developers and product managers come for the API, OpenAPI, MCP CLI, and model hub. They embed streaming avatars in websites, kiosks, or support widgets, add real-time face swap to live experiences, or wire models like Seedance, Kling, and Wan into their own applications. Agencies and small businesses on the Business plan get a business license, a fine-tuned studio avatar, workspace collaboration for editors and admins, and the highest concurrency, while enterprises add SSO, dedicated server resources, and custom limits. It also suits beginners: the free tier and the $12 Starter plan with 200 credits keep experimentation cheap, and credit-based pricing means a lone creator pays for generations rather than seats at the low end. Teams that need only one-off image editing, or that require fully offline deployment, will find Akool heavier than they need.
AKOOL Use Cases
Create camera-free spokesperson videos from a script and a studio or instant avatar.
Localize one master video into dozens of languages with dubbing, lip-sync, and subtitles.
Animate product photos and stills into talking ads for e-commerce campaigns.
Swap the model, outfit, or hairstyle in a shoot instead of reshooting it.
Deploy a real-time streaming avatar as a website greeter, kiosk host, or support agent.
Generate short social videos from prompts with Seedance, Kling, Wan, or PixVerse.
Turn slide decks and PDFs into narrated presenter videos for training and edtech.
Embed face swap, translation, or talking photos in your own product through the API.
AKOOL Pros and Cons
Pros
- One browser workspace covers avatars, face swap, translation, generation, and voice instead of five separate subscriptions.
- Video translation spans 155+ languages with lip-sync, captions, a proofread editor, and voice dictionaries for brand terminology.
- Transparent credit pricing: a free tier, $12 Starter, and roughly $0.029 to $0.060 per credit depending on the plan.
- The model hub aggregates Seedance, Wan, Kling, MiniMax, PixVerse, Sora, Veo, and Nano Banana in a single interface.
- API, OpenAPI, and MCP CLI make streaming avatars and batch video production embeddable in your own product.
Cons
- Credits do not roll over between subscription periods, so unused monthly credits are lost unless you are on Enterprise.
- Starter, Pro, and Pro Max carry a personal license; commercial and client work needs the Business or Enterprise plan.
- Key features are gated: Seedance 2.5 is unavailable on Starter, API access starts at Pro Max, and free outputs carry full-screen watermarks.
FAQ About AKOOL
AKOOL Pricing
Credit-based freemium pricing with a free $0 tier and paid plans at $12 (Starter, 200 credits), $30 (Pro, 600), $59 (Pro Max, 1,200), and $249 (Business, 6,000) per seat per month, all 30% off when billed yearly, plus custom Enterprise plans.
Check official pricingFree
Full-screen watermarks, slow processing, 5 GB storage, up to 720P, 10-minute videos, 1 custom instant avatar, 5 minutes of live face swap and streaming, and 5 text-to-speech uses in total.
Starter
200 credits per month for first-time creators: up to 1080P video, 15-minute videos, all face swap models, Video Agent and Agentic Canvas, medium processing speed, personal license, no watermark, 25 GB storage.
Pro
600 credits per month with all SOTA video and image models, up to 4K, 30-minute videos, video translation proofread access, Pro templates, six face swap models, fast processing, 50 GB storage. $21 per seat monthly when billed yearly ($252 per year, 30% off).
Pro Max
1,200 credits per month, up to 8K resolution, 45-minute videos, Seedance 2.5 access, API access, Studio Voice for brand terminology, workspace collaboration, faster processing, 500 GB storage. $41.30 per seat monthly billed yearly ($495.60 per year).
Business
6,000 credits per month, up to 16K resolution, 60-minute videos, one fine-tuned Studio Avatar, business license, fastest processing, 1 TB storage, 20 concurrent videos and 24 images. $174.30 per seat monthly billed yearly ($2,091.60 per year).
Enterprise
Customized yearly plans for organizations: non-expiring credits, Ultra Avatar support, SSO login, enterprise-grade security and privacy, dedicated server resources, customized concurrency, a dedicated customer success manager, and an enterprise license.
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